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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Grallagh Beg

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Grallagh Beg is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Grallagh Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing slope as a circular grass-covered area twenty point five metres north-south and twenty metres east-west. A grass-covered stone wall base runs west, north and east, while slight and stone-faced scarps mark the southeast and southwest. A north-northwest-south-southeast field wall crosses the centre of the site.
On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 20.5m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by the grass-covered base of a stone wall (Wth 1.6-1.8m; H 0.1-0.2m) W-N-E, a slight scarp (H 0.2m) at SE and a stone faced scarp at SW. There is no visible entrance, but a NNW-SSE field wall crosses the centre of the site. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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